Cork shawlies and Kerry's pipe-smoking dog: American visitor's 100-year-old footage restored 

The incredible footage by Benjamin Gault of Cork and Kerry a century ago was forgotten about for decades. It has now become available to view 

The Irish Film Institute has dubbed Benjamin Gault an “accidental anthropologist” for the human subjects on whom he turned his camera, and the tantalising glimpses of an increasingly lost way of life that his silent films capture.

These are precious moments captured on film that, until recently, lay forgotten in a vault for almost a century. A young woman spots the cameraman filming a crowd leaving Easter Mass at Ballyferriter Church, and covers her face and hair with her black shawl. Young couples grin at the camera at Dingle races.

In one strange little clip, a young man sits on a stony hillside, accompanied by a tail-wagging dog with a pipe in his mouth.